I downloaded an uncensored aggressive Qwen 3.5 model and I can see in its reasoning that it is still limiting responses based on safety guardrails (e.g. violence, NSFW).
Anybody have recommendations for truly uncensored models?
EDIT: I turned off reasoning and I think it’s more uncensored if I’m very specific about what the response should include.
Are you wanting something for ERP (erotic role-play; sexy chatbots)?
How much VRAM can you afford to spend on it?
If the answer to (1) is “yes”, then:
If the answer to (2) is “large GPU range”, maybe 16GB+ -ish, then I’d maybe look at Cydonia, based on Mistral Small. I find that this tends to become increasingly nonsensical and repetitive at a conversation grows to a certain (sub-context window) size, but it’s quite popular with users on /r/SillyTavernAI, and for the memory, I do think that it’s fairly solid.
If the answer to (2) is “unified memory range” — I use a 128GB Framework Desktop myself — then I personally use AnubisLemonade, a merge of two popular Llama 3.3-based models, sophosymphonia’s StrawberryLemonade and Anubis.
Anubis (based on Llama 3.3) and Cydonia (based on Mistral) are both done by /u/TheDrummer, a user who is active on on /r/LocalLlama on Reddit.
You’ll probably want a quantitized version (probably Q4_K_M and up in size, if you can afford the memory). For AnubisLemonade, quantitized versions:
https://huggingface.co/bartowski/ockerman0_AnubisLemonade-70B-v1.1-GGUF
For Cydonia, quantitized versions:
https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Cydonia-22B-v1-GGUF
EDIT: In general, /r/SillyTavernAI is probably the best current resource for people talking about models for ERP use that I’ve run into. Even if you don’t want to comment there, use Reddit, you probably should consider searching discussions there as a resource, as there’s a fair about of useful material.
EDIT2: For non-ERP uses, my impression is that things are somewhat-heading down the MoE route (as with Qwen), which is more-friendly to consumer GPUs. I’ve seen some commenting that these tend not to do ERP (or writing in general) terribly well. My limited experimentation has kind of caused me to agree.
EDIT3: Just to be clear, the base models that these are on are censored (and closed-source, though open-weight; open-weight is often referred to as being “open source”, though I personally wouldn’t call it that, as the training material is not made public). I don’t think that there are competitive open-source models aimed at ERP out there, as things stand.